In today’s post we are sharing with you two good platforms where you can search for and find online free and premium books. As for Free Book Search tool listed below , this is a specific search engine designed to help you find free ebooks, audiobooks, and Kindle books. This tool is also integrated with Google Drive allowing you to conduct your book search right in your Drive. The second tool we have in this list is the…

Continuar leyendo: Two Very Good Book Search Engines for Teachers

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Most of us are working at full capacity, and keeping up with technology can feel like one more chore on the to-do list. Still, learning your way around a few of the best Web tools is worth your time. Innovative teachers are frequently using intuitive programs and websites that are easy to learn. These web tool can save you a lot of daily hassles that you might not even realize you have been tolerating. Whether you want to…

Continuar leyendo: The Best Interactive Web Tools for Educators

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La robótica en el ámbito escolar está cada vez más extendida. Algunos centros la plantean como una actividad extraescolar y otros dentro del horario lectivo, pero, en cualquier caso, es ampliamente extendida la consideración de la robótica como un conocimiento muy interesante en la formación de los alumnos. De hecho, en algunos países como el…

Continuar leyendo: Robótica educativa con Lego

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Looking for some interesting free documentaries to use in your class or probably use for your own professional and intellectual growth? This list from Open Culture has you covered. It features around 200 free documentaries spanning a wide range of topics from history to arts and science. All of these documentaries are provided with a short description about their content together with a link to the page where you can watch them and read more about the …

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When we talk about collaborative tools we are basically referring to web tools that allow teachers and students to do the following: communicate either synchronously or asynchronously, collaborate in creative ways, engage in interactive discussions, easily share and access learning resources (i.e documents, PDFs, files, calendars) and many more.To this end, we have curated this list to share with you what we think are some of the best web-based tools to enhance teachers-students collaboration and…

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We just came across this wonderful rubric on Edutopia’s Facebook page and we thought you might want to have a look as well. This rubric which is created by Cait Camarata, Edutopia’s visual designer, is a multi-purpose sample. You can use it to assess and evaluate any kind of classroom activity whether it integrates technology or not. The rubric uses five criteria.See it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

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Monday’s post about Parapara Animation was quite popular and prompted questions from readers looking for similar tools that either work on tablets or offer more features than Parapara Animation. Here are some other sites and apps for creating animations.See it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

Continuar leyendo: Tools for Creating Animations in Your Browser or On Your Tablet

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Looking for some powerful EdTech tools to try out in your class or probably use for your professional development? This Symbaloo web mix created by Amy has you covered. The collection has around 50 wonderful educational tools and except for Knowable, an application we didn’t know before, all of the rest have been already reviewed here in the past.See it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

Continuar leyendo: 50 Great EdTech Tools for Teachers and Educators

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In response to yesterday’s post about the StayFocusd Chrome extension I received an email from someone who wanted to know how to disable and or remove the extension. The easiest way to explain that process is to show it. In the video embedded below I demonstrate how to disable, delete, and re-arrange Chrome extensions.See it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

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I think the revised Bloom’s Taxonomy is wrong.I know this statement sounds heretical in the realms of education, but I think this is something we should rethink, especially since it is so widely taught to pre-service teachers. I agree that the taxonomy accurately classifies various types of cognitive thinking skills. It certainly identifies the different levels of complexity. But its organizing framework is dead wrong. Here’s why.See it on Scoop.it, via TIC &

Continuar leyendo: Flip This: Bloom’s Taxonomy Should Start with Creating

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Queremos destacar 6 accesorios útiles para docentes que dispongan de iPhone/iPad. Todos ellos pueden facilitar todo tipo de explicaciones tanto dentro como fuera del aula. Poco a poco el concepto de mlearning va ganando terreno y por ello es básico poder disponer de accesorios que potencien su uso pedagógico. Un proyector de bolsillo puede ser muy útil…

Continuar leyendo: 6 accesorios útiles para docentes

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I’ve written about Flubaroo many times over the years because I think it is a great Google Sheets Add-on that can save teachers a lot of time when they are grading assessments. Last week I had a reader email me with a question about how to print grades from a spreadsheet after Flubaroo has run and graded an assignment. The easiest way to explain it is to show it. That’s what I do in …

Continuar leyendo: How to Print Flubaroo Grades and or Save as PDF

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Do you use Twitter in your classroom as part of your lesson plans? If not, don’t worry—you’re not alone. Although 80% of K-12 teachers do have Twitter accounts for personal or professional use, most of them don’t integrate tweets into classroom lessons.See it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

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Yesterday, I shared a video featuring five email etiquette tips for students. A good follow-up to that video can be found on the website eEtiquette. eEtiquette is a simple site that features digital etiquette tips for all of us. The tips cover everything from email etiquette to social network etiquette to cell phone etiquette. Although the subtitle of the site says there are 101 guidelines there are actually more than 101 guidelines on the site. Some of the…

Continuar leyendo: More eEtiquette – 101 Guidelines for the Digital World

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Bloom’s Taxonomy is one of the major themes here in Educational Technology and Mobile Learning. We have been extensively sharing resources on it and we have a separate section where you can access and check all the resources we have posted so far.See it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

Continuar leyendo: Everything Teachers Need to Know about Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy

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One of my pet peeves is receiving an email that from someone that just launches into a request without stopping to address me by name. For years I have told students that I won’t reply to emails if they don’t write “Hi Mr. Byrne” or something similar to start their emails. Many of my colleagues have similar policies, I’m sure that many of you do too. Using your recipient’s name is one of five good email etiquette tips for students …

Continuar leyendo: 5 Email Etiquette Tips for Students – Some for Teachers Too

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Circunstancias que no favorecen en el proceso de duelo del duelo en niños/as y jóvenes: Tensiones familiares añadidas a las propias de un duelo familiar. Maltratos, intolerancia, etc. No decir la verdad sobre lo que ha pasado (teniendo en cuenta siempre la edad y la capacidad de comprensión del menor). No facilitar informaciones concretas y…

Continuar leyendo: El duelo en el contexto educativo III

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Teaching is both a science and an art, and many teachers around the world spend endless hours perfecting their professional practice. At TEDActive 2013, a few teachers from the United States offer some tricks of the trade they’ve learned (and continue to hone) along the way.See it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

Continuar leyendo: The magic of QR codes in the classroom – Karen Mensing

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El Global Teacher Prize es el galardón equivalente al Premio Nobel para la categoría de profesores y maestros. Anualmente la Fundación Varkey otorga este premio a un docente especialmente destacado por su labor en el sector educativo. El ganador no es un profesor cualquiera, es una persona con un gran carisma y con una gran…

Continuar leyendo: Un premio nobel de 1.000.000$ para profesores

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Here are some very useful educational web tools we have curated over the last few weeks. These are EdTech tools we came across through posts from other edubloggers. As is the case with previous posts in New EdTech Web Tools for Teachers, we only feature the recent trending tools which we think would be a valued addition to teachers technology toolkit. See it on Scoop.it, via TIC & Educación

Continuar leyendo: 10 Excellent New Educational Web Tools for Teachers

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